Beata Szydło: Protest against the Nord Stream II by nine countries

On March 18, the Prime Minister of Poland Beata Szydło in Brussels, has confirmed the signing of a letter, addressed to the head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, by nine countries. The Visegrad Group (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) along with Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania and Croatia, have protested against the Nord Stream II, arguing it "threatens the investments outside the EU standards." "In the letter we note that the European Commission applied in relation to the investment rules that apply in the EU. We pay an attention that this is not an investment that has an economic dimension. It is a threat to energy security in Europe," Beata Szydło claimed. Nord Stream is an offshore natural gas pipeline (two parallel lines) from Vyborg (the Russian Federation) to Greifswald (Germany) that is owned and operated by Nord Stream AG.